Madeleine McCann’s Body Fluid DNA Found in Car hired by her Parents
September 11, 2007 | Filed under News
The DNA of Madeleine McCann has been found in a car that was hired by her parents, although the DNA was previously thought to have come from the blood of Madeleine, it is now believed that the DNA came from other body fluids from Madeleine.
According to sources, the DNA has a 88% match to the missing Madeleine’s DNA.
Also found in the boot of this car that was hired by her parents was some hair of the missing four year old.
Both parents have been named as suspects by the police.
What do you think about all this?
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what I think is, that it`s no problem to take the DNA from a LIVING child up to the car or to the rented room. I`m sure that the girl is alive and that anybody try`s to set up the family. To cut some of the girls hair is very easy and to put it into the car at night also. I believe there are very high personalitis involved.
Well, its blatantly obvious that her parents “accidently” killed her and are trying to cover it up. The fact that the person who supposedly kidnapped her took her out of a locked hotel room, knowing her parents were not in there, is so unlikely to be true and also parents would not leave three very young children alon, its an offence, its dumb, you just wouldn’t do it.. but what other excuse would you come up with if you’d accidently killed your child? Make it look like she’d “disappeared”. I mean, faining the heartbreak wouldn’t be difficult. I just hope they find out the truth.
i dont belive this!
its aload of nonsense!!!…the LAST thing Kate and Gerry need is to be accused of killing there OWN DAUGHTER.
its disgraceful!
so much effort and time is being put into ‘who killed maddy’ rather than actuli FINIDING MADELEINE herself!
ALSO IT HAS NOT YET BEEN CLAIMED SHE IS DEAD.. SO Y AN EARTH ARE THEY SAYING KATE AND/OR GERRY KILLED HER.. she could still be alive!!!!!
I’d like to know how on earth they think this will stick when the press has watched and photographed every move of the parents since Maddie went missing. They are saying this car was rented by them at least a month after her disappearance, so who rented it before them? That I would like to know.
it`s unbelievable whats going on there. May god be with this poor parents and little maddie. There is to much time lost for the search of a dead child than be concentratet to finde this little girl alive. And I`m sure she is. And the PJ should know that a dead boddy is not transportable after 25 days because it`s decayed to much. And who would believe that parents could carry their child in those poor contition? BLOODCURDLING!
Sorry for bad spelling, english is not my language.
I agree with Ohiomom and mamablue! Someone wanted that little girl and probably did plant the DNA and the hair in their car to frame them knowing that the invesitigation would turn into a murder investigation and not a missing child case anymore. And yes, the McCann’s were constantly under watch from the press. How would they be able to put a body in the trunk a month later without someone seeing them? Thanks to the portugal police, the kidnapper can now move little madeleine further away now that the focus is on the parents and not an actual kidnapper. Anyone who thinks Kate and Gerry did this should have their brain looked at.
Why would you leave your kids unattended so that you could party the night away?? Discraceful behaviour
And how could you ever fly out of the country and leave the other two behind a few days after maddy went missing?
Nothing adds up to me so i guess i do need my brain looked at!
Who had access to the car previously? Renters, mechanics, cleaners, no chain of evidence previously..doubt the police had checked previously prior to the Mccann rental period. Also fluid?- what is the chemical composition? Are there exploded red blood cells, or other human cells as you’d expect to see in a frozen body( if as supposed,they indeed hid the body)? how much is there?.. if other fluids…what other indications are there as to source where body might have been kept? How many cells of Madeleine were actually found? New methods of DNA retrieval can collect viable dna upto 2 years later and that was transferred accidently by the investigators themselves! Repeating over and over statements that may or may not be true is disengenuous… how about some science in your story …the presentation you and other news stories presents things as the Mccanns are guilty..we really do not know..and it most unfair…feeling it… knowing it.. is not the same as true..would you want to be judged by those standards
The idea that Kate McCann “accidentally killed her child” and then hid her body for nearly 25 days and then rented a car in which she put her dead daughter’s body in the rental car doesn’t add up.
What I think is that someone in the Portuguese police or even at the highest levels of the Portugese gov wanted the McCanns out of Portugal because this story is killing tourism for them. And someone in the police or at even a higher level set the McCann’s up for this.
they also wanted to get the pressure off of them from moving forward with an investigation.
What better way than for the perpetuators to get the heat off of themselves by lacing the trunk (we call the boot of a car, a trunk) with Maddy’s hair and bodily fluids such as saliva/blood?
Something stinks to high hell and the perpetuators are getting away with kidnapping and then are in turn putting the blame on the parents.
How many parents run out to the store when they’re out of milk/bread, leaving their kids alone at the house for 30 minutes? j–esus the folks in the UK that have condemming the McCann’s for not having a babysitter when they themselves do the same thing–you folks are so judgemental and hypocritical! And so easy to jump to conclusions!
if a trial had been set, the majority of the posters to this and other UK news websites would have recommended life in prison sentence for the McCanns based on the fact that they didn’t have a babysitter and now this DNA evidence without considering how incredible this whole sequence of events are.
SOMETHIHNG STINKS IN PORTUGUAL: SOMEONE IN THE PORTUGAL POLICE OR AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL IS IN ON THIS KIDNAPPING AND IS DESPARATE TO MAKE THE MCCANNS GO AWAY BY THREATENING TO ARREST THEM AND FRAME THEM FOR A HORRIBLE TRAGEDGY THAT THEY DID NOT COMMIT.
THERE ARE CHILD SMUGGLING RINGS THAT OPERATE AND PAY BIG MONEY FOR WHITE TODDLERS WITH GOOD GENES. THIS IS A BIGTIME ORGANIZED CRIME OPERATION AND THEY OPERATE VERY MUCH LIKE MAFIA BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT THEY ARE.
FOR THOSE WHO ARE CRITICAL AND ARE CONDEMMING THE MCCANN’S BASED ON THE NEW DNA EVIDENCE, DO SOME THINKING AND THINK AGAIN HOW UNBELIEVABLE THIS POSSIBILITY OF KATE HAVING “HID MADDY’S BODY” FOR 25 DAYS!
IF SHE REALLY HAD KILLED HER DAUGHTER, THEN SHE WOULDN’T HAVE WANTED ANY PUBLICITY OR DONATIONS.
THIS IS RIDICULOUS AND WHOEVER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR MADDY’S DISAPPEARANCE AND MANIPULATION OF DNA EVIDENCE HAS BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS AND VERY BAD KARMA.
CHEERS
Totally agree with the support the Mccanns comments. Its a set up and the portugeses police are involved. Scary but true. The Mccanns didnt have time and couldnt possibly move a 25 old dead body in a hot country in the media spotlight! Get real! The Pj are being fools.
I am not doubting that what they are finding is so..My question is this! Who Rented the Car Before the McCanns had it??????In who’s name was the car in previously???At least the last two names of the renters of this Car in question???
As I have said in every post I have made…
My Heart is full of love for this baby girl no matter where she is on earth or in heaven..
I love you Madeleine….
Tyra AKA: A MOMENT TO SMILE!
I don’t believe this either! Gerry and Kate no way harmed their daughter! That’s out of the question. Either a perverted high profile or Portugeuse police is behind this and set them up. Another idea is someone set this up to clear the Algarve place they were staying at. Would you want to go to a vacation spot knowing a child was kidnapped there—NO! The business is losing money! Someone is behind this. I have a question, if the DNA matched 88%, couldn’t that be one of her siblings hair and body fluids and not Maddie’s? THINK ABOUT IT! NO WAY HER PARENTS KILLED HER!
This keeps being reported as factual, yet the Portugese police department says this is false.
Why keep this in print when the sources through the department are stating that this is false information????
The information in relation to the DNA evidence seems to be no more than speculation and only confused by leaks from the police in Portugal, and so should remain a mystery to the public until any trial. However, common sense says that a case based on the McCanns storing the body for 25 days, moving it, loading it in their car, and then disposing of it in excess of 25 days later, despite the eye of the world´s media being constantly on them, them being in a country they are not familiar with (ie. how would they know where to safely hide the body)and the biggest search in Portuguese history, does not stand up too easily, and might indicate desperation on the part of the police. Then again, claims that they might have the hired the same car, the original abducator might have used, are equally extraordinary!
I think none of can say that they didn’t!!
Cos if they did we will feel so sick at the fact this has been going on so long and family and friends of the parents has done so much work it will be a very bad ending to all if they have done anything.. I did think at the begining that they might be somthing to do with it as most cases r somthing to do with family members or some one close to family…
people r saying who rented the car first.. and that someone could had plantted blood in back of car but why would they go to that much effort??
maybe the parents did do somthing and now they want 2 get caught..
If they did im sure they will break soon.. I just hop to god that those other children didnt witness anything.
“I don’t believe this either! Gerry and Kate no way harmed their daughter! That’s out of the question.”
Pardon me? Have you any idea of the - yes, very depressing - statistics behind the murder of underage children? MOST of them are killed by their own parents, caregivers or immediate relatives. Sorry, but that is the way it goes.
I don’t know, too many unanswered questions. The parents did not behave well by leaving their kids alone and gone out drinking. Why didn’t they get a baby sitter? I don’t like people stating that the Portuguese police is at fault as if they were a third world country, they have the full cooperation of the British police, are the people criticizing the Portuguese police/judicial system implying that the British system is perfect? No miscarriages of Justice here? When they are charging the parents as suspects is because there are strong reasons. I do not like also the way the parents have been manipulating the media, private jets, audience with the Pope, coming back on Easy Jet,and know they get the Lawyer that got Pinochet, the torturer, of the hook.
i think its something like 80% of infant homicides are commited by close family.
Didnt people say what a lovely bedside manner Howard shipman had until he got caught!!!
Why did they say they their group only drank 4 bottles of wine that night when bar receipts show 14 bottles?
kate you are a very sick person and should get help.
WELL IF IT IS TRUE I MIGHT THINK THEY DID BUT I’M SURE IF THEY DID CAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS CRAZY AND NOT TRUE AT ALL SO I AM JUST GUESS IN IT BUT I GIVE MY PRAYS TO MADELEINE mcCANN AND HOPE THEY FIND WHO DID IT.
If you believe the police’s theory, Kate gave all 3 children a sedative, maybe Benedryl, to make sure they slept soundly while she and Gerry had dinner with friends. They are both physicians and would certainly know what the appropriate dosage of any medication would be. Then, theoretically they realized that Maddie was non responsive and they realized that she had a fatal reaction to the sedative. They would have had to somehow hid the body and then go out to dinner as if nothing had happened. HOW could they have done that? It’s ridiculous.
Then later when Maddie is gone missing, there were scores of people looking for her, and dogs to pick up the scent. How on earth could this couple be able to secret their daughters body where it couldn’t be found and then, under the microscope of the media, somehow retrieve it (5 weeks later???) and then hide it again…somewhere. And then spend the next 5 months traveling the world, trying to find their missing daughter.
The whole scenerio is preposterous. The Portugese police have to pin this on someone, and they’ve decided on the parents.
Anyone who says the parents had anything to do with Madeleines disappearance is an outright idiot! Yes, parents have killed their children, on purpose and accidently. That is not a new concept. But…this set of parents, Kate and Gerry did not kill their child, not accidently and not on purpose. You do not have to be a rocket scientist to know that. Nothing points to them having killed their child. It would have been downright impossible for them to have hidden the body for 25 days and then moved it. In front of all the world press. When their every move was being watched. Its just so ridiculous and Im getting so sick of hearing people like some of you here saying stupid things about them having done it. Like someone said, get your heads seeing to. Ignorent stupid comments. The parents are guilty of one thing and one thing only….and that is leaving their children alone. And they are paying the ultimate price for that. Have a bloody heart! for the love of God and show some compassion. There is a missing child out there still. Thats what everyone should be focussing on. Not this ridiculous thing of framing the parents. The Portugese police are disgusting for doing this, just to cover up their own bumbling investigations.
Find Madeleine..find her, thats what they should be doing.
As in many well publicized cases over the years, i think that human error has come into play. This could be why there are so many unanswered questions.
Whether Madeline is dead or alive EVERYONE owes it to HER for justice to be served. Madeline is the victim. Madeline deserves justice. That is all that matters.
A young mother myself i am so controlling over my toddlers. We go to the store and someone at all times has to be with the kids holding on to the cart. I don’t see how the McCann’s could have left their young children alone like that, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t care. No one is perfect, if they were they wouldn’t be here.
I only pray that she is found (alive or dead), and that justice is served. Madeline, where ever you are, may angels be with you.
Look at it this way. The parents are both doctors.The mother wants to go out for dinner with friends. As well as the twins, she’s got a 3 year old child.Children at that age often play up at bed time. She could have sedated the child and accidentally given the wrong dose.If there was an abducter then why take a 3 year old instead of one of the younger siblings?
I guess the whole truth will come out in the end!! we all just want her to b alive and well but It doesent look that way now.. I just hope the right people get caught.. And for the other two children of theres I just hope the police r wrong and it’s not the parents..
The mother’s behaviour and blank stare are what I’d expect to see from someone consumed by guilt.
Well, who rented the car bofore the parents? They don’t really think of these things do they.. :/
Those police wouldn’t even relize if little angel Maddie was right beside them! The press is to caught up and involved I know I wouldn’t be able to think straight if I were the parents or anyone involved in it.
Poor baby girl needs to come home, wether shes dead or not, let us all know! The kidnapper needs to come clean, their lieing and God is watching, they should never be forgiven.
Maddie deserves better, the parents deserve better, her siblings deserve better than to wonder where their big sister is and why shes not home! I don’t know if it was the parents or not, but I don’t think it was. The person who took the poor thing could have been stalking them for a couple days and knew when the parents were gone and poor baby was in the room alone with two younger siblings. It doesn’t sound hard, and its possible.
My thoughts are with you Maddie!
~BaileyBoo
Maybe the dingo did it??
Lets get serious…. You are having supper, you go to check on your children, and while you are there you accidently kill one of them. In the short while that you are away and emotionally wrecked, you keep you head, wrap up your child, find a really brilliant place to hide the body.(one that a massive search by many can’t uncover),wipe the blood from the walls and go back to the table where you are dining with a group of people, and act completely normal. You then draw huge attention to yourselves so that you can barely go to the bathroom without being photographed. You still however find the opportunity to retrieve the body 25 days later and load it into the tyrewell of your hired vehicle and dispose of it in such a brilliant place that it has still not been recovered…And all this without being seen by one reporter,photographer, or member of the public.
I don’t think so….. I smell a rat, and its not in the McCann camp….maybe the JP
The McCanns are hiring the QC who managed to prevent the extradition of General Pinochet (There’s an achievement to be proud of!). Does this perhaps suggest the McCanns are considering digging in their heels and refusing to return to Portugal?
The “accident” could have happened hours before the McCann’s dinner date, giving them time to conceal evidence, and to put the cover story into motion.
This presumably would have had to happen when the twins were awake, probably while it was still light outside, and a lot more people around. It would also have required them to sedately take themselves off to dinner and to enjoy an evening of wine and social interaction. There was talk too of other members of the party checking on the children.(Taking turns)
Doesn’t work for me.
i think they’re guilty. these are very smart methodical educated people. they could figure out a way to get rid of the body and maintain their poker faces without being suspected. noone has suspected them because their public announcements have been so successful. the reason they’re suspects is because of DNA plain and simple. the portuguese police aren’t making anything up. they’re not scapegoating anyone. you find that much DNA in the boot of a car, clumps of hair, fluid…etc..that’s BAD. that’s not a coincidence. they could have hidden her in the church, had other family members help them, and disposed of her body somewhere. when they hightailed it out of portugal when they were going to be charged, their faces, just plain stone, gave them away. it was faces of guilt and of being busted. they know they’re going to be charged. i don’t know how many other family members are in on this but i suspect a few are. madeleine could have vomited from the sedatives and choked on her vomit or something and kate could have panicked and thrown her around or tried to resuscitate her causing injuries but it was too late. being a doctor, surely she knew if it was too late. she wraps her up, tells her husband, and they play if off until the next day putting her body somewhere until they can go back to get it and concocting an abduction story (like diane downs!!) and having family saying “yes! we saw a bad man taking her away”. when these family members and kate and gerry know they’re the murderers and are covering up. the police cannot make up DNA findings. i doubt they’re embarrassed about the story or care about tourism going down. that’s ridiculous. they’ve found extremely incriminating evidence because the mccanns didn’t have time to cover everything or got sloppy. i think they are guilty and will be found out soon. i do not believe one bit of their story any more and their family members could be considered accomplices at this point. look at the evidence, not the hysteria.
Quote”There was talk too of other members of the party checking on the children.(Taking turns)”
And none of them actually saw madeleine in bed that night.They said they just poked there heads round the door or listened outside to see if the kids were wake or crying.Real good parenting skills!!
Plus the waiters said they only saw people leave a few times not every 1/4 hour or whatever the McCanns claimed
Oh my God! I never ever thought I would be reduced to laughter on this incredibly sad and serious subject. But honest to God…some of your postings about the parents killing her have actually killed me with laughter. Well done Heather for showing the ridiculousness of it and seriously I worry about this world with the other idiots on the board whom have commented that the parents are guilty and have killed her. Exaggeration and the things that people come out with. Obviously the intelligence is lacking….God give me strength and I so hope that no more comments are going to make me laugh. Because I dont want to be laughing at something that is so serious and so sad and I want to remember that Madeleine is still out there and still missing and everyone should still be looking for her.
the parents said they wouldnt leave portugal without madeleine and yet after having all the DNA evidence put to them they get on a flight for the uk so quick their feet dont touch the ground and hire one of the most expensive layers in europe??
See if that makes you laugh sandara
Wouldn’t “very smart methodical educated people” be aware of DNA evidence, and not leave damning hair and bodily fluid in the trunk of their rental car?
Did they decide to go home before the police made their accusations, or had they just put their lives and the twins lives on hold for so long with no results. People have to earn a living, regardless of the whereabouts of their missing child. That’s real life. I’m sure they would have stayed on if they thought there was still a chance that Maddie would be found. I hope she is, but it seems unlikely at this point.
“people have to earn a living”?
Are they earning a living now?
if you stayed for over 120 days hoping she’d be found why call it a day there.
Kate mcCann was gobsmacked when told Maddys blood match was found on the wall in their appartment and had no feasible explination as to how it got there.A matter of hours later they are scurrying back to england to find a top lawyer.
Funny, Emmarose, how one blogger pointed out that they wouldn’t have ever had the time, nor the opportunity to dispose of that poor baby’s body, since they had been in the public eye from day 1 or so. Ridiculous thinking you have there. I feel they are being vilified in the public, and especially in Portugal. The Portugese people are against them because their country has been made out to be a place where the innocent are guilty beforehand. Get your facts straight, K??
And funny, Gary, that they didn’t “take off” when they stayed there for so long begging someone to help them?? And that Gerry visited the U.S. to take a look at our system because Portugal doesn’t have the sophistication that we do? Ridiculous.
hi there come on..people you have common sense and some of you have kids..i am not a cop but what i think happened is that madeline accidently killed herself while her parents was out and her parents didnt want to be responsible for it so they seige the whole the thing…my reasons are that no matter what you do not leave a 2 year old and a 4 year old even if they are sleeping and go more than 10 feet away because kids wake up during the night and kids at 4 are nosy..so they touch things and go around.also its highly unlikely for some one to know where the parents are going..like even if someone was watching them..they wudn`t know where they are going.also if they found dna in the car they rented 25 days after.possiblity cud of been they had the child body somewhere and when the police was closing in moved it somwhere becasue i kno they didnt have it in the car cuz people start after a few days dead.
I believe the police are looking at a construction trench around the church which they believe was the original hiding place for the body. If the McCanns were guilty why would they not have left the body there. Why risk moving it at all? The police theories have holes in them the size of the Grand Canyon. Gary, if you were being set up for a murder you know you did not commit, while staying in a foreign country where anything seems to go with regard to the law and police, would you not hightail it out of there as soon as possible? I know I would return to a place of security were at least a margin of sanity still exists.
so the old lady next door heard a litle child crying at night daddy, daddy…. the parents were getting drunk at the bar with friends… at home two twins and a litle girl all of them very, very young ones… the mother comes at home and say her daughter was kidnapped… no trace left of the kidnapper… the only thing I ask myself how could it be that portuguese police didn’t put the parents on top of the suspect list from the very beggining of the whole show…
Roger, could you provide a link to the source saying that a neighbor heard a child crying, and also where you can corroborate the fact that the parents were inebriated? I’ve been out to dinner with friends and while wine was consumed, nobody was even close to being drunk, so I’m wondering if this is just your assumtion.
(http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/17093/Mum-s-amazing-outburst-on-night-she-disappeared-WE-VE-LET-MADELEINE-DOWN-)
“Expatriate Pamela Fenn, 81, who lives in the flat above where the McCanns were staying, was re-interviewed by detectives on Monday after it emerged that she might have fresh clues.Widow Mrs Fenn told police that two nights before Madeleine went missing she heard a little girl in the apartment crying for over an hour.She said the toddler, who is believed to have been Madeleine, was crying “Daddy, daddy” constantly between 10.30 and 11.45pm. (…) A source close to Mrs Fenn said: “She often sits on the balcony at night and heard a commotion downstairs. “She heard the woman who she now knows to be Kate crying ‘We have let her down, we have let her down’.”
(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article2422967.ece)
How much alcohol did the McCanns and their friends drink on the evening Madeleine disappeared? Kate and Gerry McCann and their friends are reported to have told detectives they shared four bottles of wine, with another two barely touched before Madeleine was discovered missing. However, it is claimed detectives have recovered a bill showing they downed eight bottles of red wine and six white during the afternoon and evening.
The second comment took a while for me to post cause of problemas on this web server.
Anyway donna, I hope you are satisfied with the links. Most of what we think to be true on this case is media made-up. Our emotions included. They wanted a victim british medium-class for us and we swallowed without even stop to think. British people have become addicted in emotional media, emotional news. This is a problem, news are not about emotion. That is the biggest truth we all could take it with us from all this stuff.
Thank you for the link, this information is very illuminating albeit disturbing. I hadn’t seen the info from Mrs Fenn, it seems to provide some facts both pro and con to the incident.
I wonder if all the facts will ever come out. I will be extremely disheartened if the parents are, in fact, implicated.
One of the most obvious things we all let it pass since the beginning is the troubling fact the McCanns only warned the police 30 minutes after having contacted with Sky News. This is so absurd and so clearly suspect, but the newspapers and TV and we ourselves wanted so much to believe in the young poor couple… Now that things are becoming clearer let’s all start trying to get your dignity back, and stopping trasforming what most probably is a murder case in a patriotic battle.
Bodily fluids found in the boot had evidence of large amounts of chemicals associated with sleeping pills. You want to go out for the night but have kids who won’t let you, and you are a doctor. Hmmmm.
The police need to look for sleeping chemical trace in samples of hair from the twins.
When kate mcCann ran back to the resturant at 10pm to say maddy was missing,would it not have been a mothers instinct to have gathered the twins up and taken them with her?
If like they say,someone had abducted maddy would you then leave the apartment leaving the twins in there sleeping in case the abductor was still lurking??
The story by the neighbor is completely made up, as are other “factual stories”. The neighbor today emphatically denied every making any statements previously atributed to her. She sts. the stories are completely false. Also the portuguise soliciter sts alot of the information attributed to them, and repeated else where is inaccurate in relation to DNA, ansd evidence types being discussed. Lay reader mascuerading as scientists saying DNA is DNA- that proves guilt just aren’t thinking critically. First is the information accurate? What is the chain of evidence?. Chemistry and degredation concerns, timeline issues, new DNA methodogy that can find one cell two years later, transfered not by the perpetrator -but oooopppps the police technician. Point? we- including me, do not have enough information to condem people. The argument that the mCcanns they got special attention, that they are bright, why did they leave the twins home after finding Maddy gone, why would they, along with thier friends leave children that young alone etc., etc… doesn’t MEAN guilty of accidental murder, purposeful murder, or a cover-up. Now a days People get a little information , thinking they are wise and do the same thing thier ancestors did… go on a witch hunt. That is just false witnessing and gossip.
Gary,I have not read anywhere that the mother ran back to the restuarant leaving her kids behind. Is this just an assumption? She started screaming and shouting, and staff and guests came running to her aid. Are you sure one of them didn’t call Gerry? Maybe she left her children in the care of a staff member. Your determination to see evil in these people sometimes surpasses rationality. So little information about the intricacies of this case have reached our ears, be careful when you fill in the gaps.
sometimes you just get a gut feeling about someone
My gut feeling is that Kate McCann is an ice princess, and is responsible for her daughter’s death.
“How many parents run out to the store when they’re out of milk/bread, leaving their kids alone at the house for 30 minutes? j–esus the folks in the UK that have condemming the McCann’s for not having a babysitter when they themselves do the same thing–you folks are so judgemental and hypocritical! And so easy to jump to conclusions!”
You are judgemental and hypocritical for sugesting UK folk leave their young kids home alone for 30 minutes to go to the shop! Yes the Mccans did, but it doesn’t mean to say the rest of us would. WOULD YOU?
I’m kind of surprised that they didn’t bring along a nanny to care for the children while on holiday, they will next time I’d bet.
I see a lot of appeal to emotion here. People who support the Mccaans because they don’t see the big picture. They just see crying parents and a missing little girl. The little girl is out there and she is the only one ANY of you should care about. I don’t care about the parents. I really don’t. Especially when it was their negligence that cost them their daughter in the first place and then their inconsistancy and secrets that will keep the police from finding her. I wouldn’t be surprised if they WERE the ones who did it.
I doubt this is someone trying to frame them and since for the first month no one seemed to be concentrating on the parents, it could have been easy for them to hide the little girl and then whisked her away. Maybe they didn’t kill her but had a sudden angry streak. Maybe they planned the public giving them money and so sent her to live with someone so they could mooch off of the publics sympathy and then when they were satisfied their daughter would suddenly turn up. I don’t care whether or not they did it or why and the parents should only be a suspect and a nuance to everyone here.
Madeline is my only concern.